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I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by bcrosby95 »

cosmodisk wrote: post #112
VBprogrammer wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except major cities like London, Paris, Dublin where it is somewhere around 'table stakes'.

$100K before taxes is decent salary in London. It's not a lot a lot but that's what a senior developer would make in most companies (excluding financial sector+ some extremely funded shops). Would you stop worrying about money? No,of course not.But you could afford to live in decent area,drive normal car,have some nice holidays in pretty places + put some aside for rainy day.Of course,this is London,so no matter what…

Does this include having a family?

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Post by iandanforth »

NickBusey wrote: post #85

I hit $500/yr on Patreon this week for my open source work! :) Nice work, I should think about having paid only videos as well, I believe I can do that pretty easily on Patreon. Good tips in here.

Lol I didn't notice there wasn't a 'k' in there and was really impressed for a moment.

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Post by recursivedoubts »

stevekemp wrote: post #78
recursivedoubts wrote: post #3

Wow, that's a huge inspiration. I've been sitting on GitHub sponsorship setup for htmx, but this motivates me to get that done. It would be amazing to work on a passion project and get paid for it.

I have a bunch of projects which seem to be popular, and a lot of followers. Income received via sponsorship? €0. I think a lot depends on luck, and the kind of repositories you manage/create. Some projects are obviously more commercially useful than others, and those are the easier ones to receive income from. https://github.com/skx/

yeah, like most technical stuff it seems like a lottery ticket, but if it's a lottery ticket that costs almost $0 it's worth at least setting it up...

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Post by PascLeRasc »

hoorayimhelping wrote: post #54
msoad wrote: post #8

$100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. Specially an engineer at this caliber. But working on OSS full time is probably 100x more fulfilling than building CRUD for a boring ad company.

> $100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer Oh, well then fuck this idiot, right? What a dumbass loser - doesn't even realize they can be a s i l i c o n v a l l e y e n g i n e e r and make a lot of money. Jesus it's so exhausting reading the knee-jerk "SV engineers make more money" reaction to everything. You know what this person has that 99.999% of all SV engineers will never hav…

I actually really want to live in San Francisco, but I don't want to and am not smart enough to work for a FAANG-type company. It's one of the few American cities where you can be a first-class citizen without owning a car and comfortably bike/walk everywhere year-round. SF has a really fascinating history and cool culture. I wish it was possible to work in academia there without already being wealthy.

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Post by philliphaydon »

s3krit wrote: post #89
negrit wrote: post #24

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Yes but the author is American So he'll always have to pay US taxes even if he moves out of the US.(I'm aware about tax treaties but in most cases they still have to pay the difference)

You only need to pay tax back to the US on your earnings > $100k/year

If the earnings are made outside of the US then he doesn't pay tax on less than 100k. The earnings are in the US so he would need to pay, he still has to fill in a W9 form as he's a US citizen.

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Post by philliphaydon »

nogabebop23 wrote: post #109
philliphaydon wrote: post #51

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Yes but being American he will be double taxed living outside of the US.

this is not true.

It is true depending on the country he lives in. As he's a US citizen, even if he lives overseas he needs to fill in a W-9 form to get the money from GitHub.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

Kudos!

I've been doing OSS for twenty years, and never made a dime.

Qualifier: Never wanted to. It's always been a labor of love.

Even when I have done a bit of commercial work (outside of what I did as a 9-5), I open-source that work, as well.

I like doing OSS. I take pride in my craft, and like having it out there.

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Post by 6AA4FD »

jjuel wrote: post #63
naavis wrote: post #9

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You also don't need to live in the expensive SV area.

Median home cost in Nebraska $168,900. Median home cost in California $552,800. Yeah I think 100k a year would go a little farther in one of these places than the other...

Don't forget that California is a big state and a lot of it is not very populated or popular. A house in the bay or LA will probably run you a lot more than that.

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Post by praveenperera »

mraza007 wrote: post #92
buf wrote: post #61

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I make $400k a year on a side project. I can do no work on it at all and still make $400k this year because the money is residual. It took 5 years to get to this point. The first 18 months, I made $0. I could sell this side project for $1M easily. I could grow it if I want to and make $500k next year. I could write a blog and grow my personal brand on how I made this side project. There are lots of opportunities this…

If you don't mind can I ask whats your side project

I'm assuming its this: http://www.castingcall.club

Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by komali2 »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #101
bluedino wrote: post #27

Comparing $90k as a W2 employee doesn't really compare to making $112k as a LLC or contractor. Taxes, health insurance, retirement... On the other hand, his amounts are going up, so I'm interested to see how high they will go, and what it will consistently level out at.

If you set the entity up correctly and work with a decent accountant, your $112k turns into more like $40k taxable, and if you are married, that $40k drops to $20k @ 10% + $20k @ 12% or ~ $4500 in taxes.

This is news to me so I'm just saying, if you wrote about this in more detail, I'd read the shit out of it.
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